Do you like playing board games? Have you ever tried to make your own? During this camp we’ll spend the first two days playing and analyzing games from tic-tac-toe all the way to Forbidden Island and Dixit. We’ll think and talk about how they work, why they’re fun, and what memory, math, language, and logical thinking skills we use to play them. Then we’ll each plan and make our own games using what we’ve learned. After we play-test each others’ games, we’ll invite friends and family to our game release party where they can enjoy the fruits of our labor.

About the instructor: Steve Gooch is a Montessori teacher in Oklahoma City. Before discovering his calling in early-childhood education, he spent ten years teaching literature and composition at OKCU and Purdue University. He’s taught adults and elementary students how to make games and will be presenting on teaching game design this summer at GenCon, the biggest tabletop-game convention in North America. He’s also given workshops on comics making in Oklahoma, Texas, and Indiana to groups of teachers at all levels, K-12 students, military veterans and their families, and cancer survivors. His comics include “Skip Schwartz and the Lost City Fireball,” the true tale of a meteorite that landed near Tahlequah, and the award-winning “How To Survive For a Week in a Dumpster. In Austin. In July.” His new game, “Alone,” will be released in early 2019.

Price: $200/camper. Scholarships available: please email us at contact@sixtwelve.org. Before and After Care available as well, 8am to 9am AND 4pm to 5:30pm.

GameDev DrinkUp is a national monthly meet up for devs, gamers, and nerds alike to kick back and unwind between con craziness! A con party away from the con, if you will? Grab a few drinks and play some old school arcade games and discuss the latest in gaming, every 2nd Thursday @ The Max!

After a short hiatus and PAX South, GDDU is back and gearing up for GDC! Our team is producing an indie title and would love to connect with any local independent studios, teams, or those even remotely interested in indie development in the Tulsa area.

Not a developer? We still like you. Come for the free drinks and game tokens, for the first 10 through the door! (Other GDDU locations are holding raffles, we will not have a raffle.)

If you love video games, Heartland Gaming Expo is for you. This hands-on experience features great industry speakers, tutorials, and over one hundred games produced by up-and-coming game developers.

If you are a developer or want to become one, the expo hosts the largest game development competition in the region. We have multiple age and competition categories for elementary, middle and high school, college/university, and indie game makers. For those interested in learning to create games, the expo provides tutorials taught by leading industry experts. And for the truly courageous game builders, there is a 168-hour code jam.

So if you build games, want to learn to build games, or just want to play games, bring your family to the largest spring gaming event in the central US: Heartland Gaming Expo.

Join us at the Microsoft Store at Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa to be one of the first to preview a developer’s Halo Wars 2 stream. Developers will show off game play and answer questions prior to game launch. In addition to the live streaming, attendees can play Halo 5: Guardians!

Join us for a night full of Halo! Starting at 6:00 pm, join us for a Halo Tournament and compete against others for exclusive prizes! Then, at 7:30pm CST be one of the first to see Halo Wars 2 gameplay straight from the 343 developers who will answer your questions and show live game play via Twitch. Come in to learn exclusive game tricks, get a sneak peek of the game and win exclusive prizes* all before it is released on February 21! Space is limited so register today!
*No purchase required. Open to US residents 13+.

Normally Game Developer events happen on the last Sunday of the month, but since a certain holiday falls on the last Sunday of the month this time, we’re pushing it up a little bit!

For any new folks to these events, we welcome local game developers to bring in their products for people to test out, or just discuss ideas they’ve got and trying to figure out how to get the product out of the head and onto the board! Any and all are welcome to come in to show off or to help playtest developers’ games for the day!

Developers will have their Game Pass waived for the day, so bring in those prototypes and/or ideas, and let’s see what you got! Anyone coming in to just help playtest games only pays a half price Game Pass of $2.50!

And who knows, maybe your game will be up on our shelves for customers to enjoy some day (or as seen above, shown off at a con)! See you at LXP!

Come on out to the Tulsa Game Developers’ first Hack Night! Join developers from across the Tulsa area (web devs, software programmers and more) to show off whatever you might be working on. Got a working prototype? A work-in-progress composition? New character design sketch? Bring it and share it!

This is totally informal, and it’s a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and ask questions. See you there!